11/02/2011

Paras Shot In Afghanistan Named

The Ministry of Defence have named two British soldiers killed on patrol in southern Afghanistan.

On Wednesday, Pte Lewis Hendry, of 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, and Pte Conrad Lewis, of 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment, died in small arms fire.

Both soldiers had been patrolling in the north of Nad-e Ali district in Helmand.

The MoD reported that Pte Hendry, from Norwich, died at the scene after suffering gunshot wounds. He was three days off his 21st birthday.

Pte Lewis, from Bournemouth, was four months into his tour of Afghanistan when his patrol came under fire.

(BMcN/GK)

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